The content analysis of the impressions of 22 American educators who spent 6 weeks studying special education in Europe summarizes their impressions or concerns on the philosophy, diagnostic procedures, staffing, and post-school planning of the special education programs they visited. The report considers positive reactions and negative concerns…

Courses and study programs in the United States designed for initial or continuing training for all levels of management and administration in higher education are analyzed and compared with similar studies in the Federal Republic of Germany. It is concluded that there would be little advantage in simply transferring methods and ideas from…

The report documents the development and the results of the educational program in the Saskatchewan Penitentiary from 1971 through 1974. Available from: Extension Division, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon S7N OWO. (MW)

The author evaluates the educational needs of handicapped children in Denmark, discusses recent psychoeducational research pertinent to those needs, and makes recommendations for improving the division of administrative responsibility between the educational and social services departments. Research concerning the relative benefits of special…

A group of directors of schools of public health and health administrators convened to discuss the administrative problems involved in the education and training of public health medical officers (PHMO) in the World Health Organization (WHO). Their two main purposes were (1) to specify the needs for, and patterns of medical officers of health and…

Limited to documents announced in Resources in Education from April 1977 to March 1978, this annotated bibliography covers a broad spectrum of reports generated directly or indirectly by 66 large school districts in the United States and Canada. The reports include descriptions and evaluations of bilingual, early childhood, compensatory, and…

Although the practice of journeying to a foreign country for educational purposes has an ancient history, it has only recently had a great impact on American higher education. A rapid increase in the number of programs and the number of student participants began in the mid-1950's and continues presently. This research project was conducted during…

This 142-item annotated bibliography, limited to documents announced in Resources in Education from April 1978 to January 1979, cites reports generated directly or indirectly by 47 large school districts in the United States and Canada. The reports include descriptions and evaluations of career education, compensatory, bilingual, special…

The paper provides up-to-date factual information for first and second language acquisition and bilingualism for administrators, teaching staff, parents, students, and others concerned with this subject. The overview of present educational theories, research and development, practices, and legislation in the areas of language acquisition and…

The document presents, in English and French, a collection of studies of discussing future options for occupational adult education in Canada, prepared for the conference, "Manpower Training at the Crossroads," by the Canadian Association for Adult Education (CAAE) and l'Institute Canadien d'Education des Adultes (ICEA). The studies…

Facts about public residential facilities for the mentally retarded in the United States introduce the following subjects: personal reactions by an American and by a Scandinavian visitor to typical state institutions for the retarded; the history of U.S. institutions and the theoretical constructs of role and role perception; service concepts…

An annotated bibliography of studies in agricultural education, the edition contains 47 research studies completed during the calendar years 1973 and 1974 in the Pacific region States and submitted by teacher educators. (Some studies completed in 1972 but not previously reported are also included.) The summaries are arranged alphabetically by…

To investigate and analyze the role played by the industrial sections of the educational, intervening, and employment training systems in meeting manpower needs and to determine output and costs of these systems, interviews were held with employment officials, educators, and recruitment and training officers to obtain information concerning their…

Ten brief case studies illustrate the types of arrangements which have been made between commissions and evaluators, and describe some of the subsequent problems. Each of the cases is a major evaluative study of a large-scale educational development or school operation. For the collection as a whole, the purpose was to illustrate how the…